Sir Reel Press presents
...what happens when she discovers that her new best friend is a side-show "freak?"
Author and Emmy-winner Tim Landry has spent his entire career creating magic. In addition to writing and directing award-winning films he crafted visual effects illusions for the Motion Picture industry in such clas
sic films as George of the Jungle, The Sixth Sense, and Pirates of the Caribbean.
In the early 2000s Tim’s attentions turned toward creating spectacular real world illusions for theme parks and cruise ships. His work draws smiles and gasps every day from guests in theme parks around the world.
Now, with Addie’s Eyes Tim’s storytelling magic comes to the printed page in an entertaining and inspiring fantasy novel woven around actual events. He conjures a unique and heart-felt tale of wonder, friendship, resilience, and what it really means to see, not only with our eyes, but with our hearts. Tim’s hope is that readers will come away viewing their own world a little differently--through Addie’s Eyes.
Addie’s Eyes was written to be an entertaining and inspirational story for all ages. But it hardly compares to the inspiring story behind the scenes of its creatio
n.
When author Tim Landry was seeking an illustrator to collaborate with him to tell the book’s story, his search led him to a talented lady named Nataliia Kretsu, a Ukrainian artist with a deep passion for visual storytelling. Born in 1984, she studied at the Art and Music School of the Yampil Humanitarian Lyceum in the Vinnytsia region and at the Ushynsky South Ukrainian Pedagogical University in Odessa, where she developed a strong foundation in classical art. After more than twenty years as an art teacher, she began devoting herself full-time to illustration in 2019. She lives in Odessa.
Addie’s Eyes was an unexpected partnership, given that Nataliia speaks little English, Tim speaks no Ukrainian, and there is a nine-hour time zone difference. Still, her enthusiasm and talent beckoned Tim to try to make it work. And a creative association soon blossomed.
But language and time differences were the least of the challenges:
Nataliia lives in a war-torn country. Her husband is “gone,” presumably lost in the war, and she has two children. All through the creation of the twenty-four illustrations for the book, she would have to endure the stress of rockets and drones flying overhead with the occasional explosion added for punctuation. She often worked on artwork for the book in her bathroom, an interior room where she could be away from potential flying glass from windows...
